Adam Quinn
@adamquinnphd.com
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a labor & environmental history of the computer industry.
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
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Adam Quinn
@adamquinnphd.com
· Nov 19
Reposting this intro for my new followers along with a bonus dog
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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One thing that elections when Trump is not on the ballot make clear: the GOP is so ready to entertain Trump 3 and/or egregious gerrymandering and voter suppression because they know if they play fair then there's not really a future for the party.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One thing that elections when Trump is not on the ballot make clear: the GOP is so ready to entertain Trump 3 and/or egregious gerrymandering and voter suppression because they know if they play fair then there's not really a future for the party.
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The votes are in four years later: unions and @organizeworkers.bsky.social confirmed cool
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The votes are in four years later: unions and @organizeworkers.bsky.social confirmed cool
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The AI Coca-Cola ad seems to have involved as many workers and expenses as their traditional ads. Generative AI won't fully replace jobs and give us a 12 hour workweek. It'll just save time on some tasks while making roles more rote, deskilled, and alienating.
That's how labor automation works!
That's how labor automation works!
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The AI Coca-Cola ad seems to have involved as many workers and expenses as their traditional ads. Generative AI won't fully replace jobs and give us a 12 hour workweek. It'll just save time on some tasks while making roles more rote, deskilled, and alienating.
That's how labor automation works!
That's how labor automation works!
The AI Coca-Cola ad seems to have involved as many workers and expenses as their traditional ads. Generative AI won't fully replace jobs and give us a 12 hour workweek. It'll just save time on some tasks while making roles more rote, deskilled, and alienating.
That's how labor automation works!
That's how labor automation works!
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The AI Coca-Cola ad seems to have involved as many workers and expenses as their traditional ads. Generative AI won't fully replace jobs and give us a 12 hour workweek. It'll just save time on some tasks while making roles more rote, deskilled, and alienating.
That's how labor automation works!
That's how labor automation works!
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough
vibe shift reverse uno card. it's over. we are back.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
vibe shift reverse uno card. it's over. we are back.
The votes are in four years later: unions and @organizeworkers.bsky.social confirmed cool
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The votes are in four years later: unions and @organizeworkers.bsky.social confirmed cool
This year's environmental history job market is the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water studies
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This year's environmental history job market is the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water studies
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A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
Facial recognition apps like this have been shown to be not only unreliable but racially biased. This is just a high-tech excuse to strip people of their rights.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Facial recognition apps like this have been shown to be not only unreliable but racially biased. This is just a high-tech excuse to strip people of their rights.
Talk I gave yesterday; the "Wild West" title refers to how two Silicon Valley firefighters I interviewed from separate fire departments both called Silicon Valley the "Wild West" due to the chemical fires, explosions, and toxic leaks in the under-regulated 20th century electronics industry.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Talk I gave yesterday; the "Wild West" title refers to how two Silicon Valley firefighters I interviewed from separate fire departments both called Silicon Valley the "Wild West" due to the chemical fires, explosions, and toxic leaks in the under-regulated 20th century electronics industry.
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impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.
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If any editors are looking for a piece on how a mid-sized city is explicitly marketing its anti-labor/union-busting policies as a reason for Big Tech to locate some of the largest data center projects in the world there, I have a pitch...
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If any editors are looking for a piece on how a mid-sized city is explicitly marketing its anti-labor/union-busting policies as a reason for Big Tech to locate some of the largest data center projects in the world there, I have a pitch...
The best, true version of the "X was just made up to sell more Y" conspiracy theory is that retail shop owners lobbied for Daylight Savings to get people to shop more after work.
They literally changed time and messed up everyone's circadian rhythms so you'd go to the store more.
They literally changed time and messed up everyone's circadian rhythms so you'd go to the store more.
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The best, true version of the "X was just made up to sell more Y" conspiracy theory is that retail shop owners lobbied for Daylight Savings to get people to shop more after work.
They literally changed time and messed up everyone's circadian rhythms so you'd go to the store more.
They literally changed time and messed up everyone's circadian rhythms so you'd go to the store more.
If any editors are looking for a piece on how a mid-sized city is explicitly marketing its anti-labor/union-busting policies as a reason for Big Tech to locate some of the largest data center projects in the world there, I have a pitch...
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If any editors are looking for a piece on how a mid-sized city is explicitly marketing its anti-labor/union-busting policies as a reason for Big Tech to locate some of the largest data center projects in the world there, I have a pitch...
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If they weren't real jobs, capitalists wouldn't be spending trillions trying to automate them.
October 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If they weren't real jobs, capitalists wouldn't be spending trillions trying to automate them.
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The Biggest Louvre-r, perhaps
They should have a section of the Louvre that people can steal from for fun. They could make a little competition reality show out of it, like Top Chef for heists. This year's crown jewels furnished by San Pellegrino.
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Biggest Louvre-r, perhaps
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NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Trump wants us to believe he's unstoppable
But social scientists have found that 52% of all attempts to build autocracies are relatively quickly reversed by democratizing "U-Turns" — and, within the last 30 years, this number has risen to 73%
But social scientists have found that 52% of all attempts to build autocracies are relatively quickly reversed by democratizing "U-Turns" — and, within the last 30 years, this number has risen to 73%
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump wants us to believe he's unstoppable
But social scientists have found that 52% of all attempts to build autocracies are relatively quickly reversed by democratizing "U-Turns" — and, within the last 30 years, this number has risen to 73%
But social scientists have found that 52% of all attempts to build autocracies are relatively quickly reversed by democratizing "U-Turns" — and, within the last 30 years, this number has risen to 73%
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
The Biggest Louvre-r, perhaps
They should have a section of the Louvre that people can steal from for fun. They could make a little competition reality show out of it, like Top Chef for heists. This year's crown jewels furnished by San Pellegrino.
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Biggest Louvre-r, perhaps
They should have a section of the Louvre that people can steal from for fun. They could make a little competition reality show out of it, like Top Chef for heists. This year's crown jewels furnished by San Pellegrino.
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
They should have a section of the Louvre that people can steal from for fun. They could make a little competition reality show out of it, like Top Chef for heists. This year's crown jewels furnished by San Pellegrino.
A European tourist just came up to me and asked where the "factory to make money" was and i was like "the bank?" And he was like "no where they make the money" and I was like oh the US Mint. He defeated me at neomaterialism without even trying.
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A European tourist just came up to me and asked where the "factory to make money" was and i was like "the bank?" And he was like "no where they make the money" and I was like oh the US Mint. He defeated me at neomaterialism without even trying.